Citation

Belov VP, Khachaturian AM. Zh. Nevrol. Psikhiatr. Im. S. S. Korsakova 1999; 99(10): 9-13.

Vernacular Title

Psikhopatopodobnye sostoianiia posle cherepno-mozgovykh travm.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Media Sphera)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10536805

Abstract

The presence of stable personal disharmony in the form of a reduced organic mental syndrome served as a criterion for diagnosis of personality changes after traumatic head injuries. The patients were divided into a group with prevalence of personality changes (81 patients) and a group with predominance of pronounced organic mental syndrome (141 patients). Personality disorders prevailed in the patients who had got mild and moderate traumas at the age of 13-25 years, with less number of additional pathogenic factors of exogenic organic spectrum in anamnesis. 3 variants of the course of personality disorders were recognized: with a tendency toward reduction of emotional and drive pathology; with a tendency to intensification of intellectual and mnestic disorders and transformation into large-scale organic mental syndrome; with a tendency toward an increase of pathological traits of personality in conditions of growing influence of the environmental and psychogenic factors.

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